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Chicago examiner vol x no 18 a m sunday c Chicago october 31 1909 sunday , pkice five cents hearst will be next mayor of new york says col harvey i magazine editor pre ts defeat of gaynor and nnard by the candidate the civic alliance i what a housecleaning ere'll be he says vhen hearst takes of e declares administra n alarmed wickersham's speech attempt to stem re blican defection blames iox for the recall of c crane h.e wash oct 30 the election am randolph hearst as mayor of rk is predicted by george harvey f harper's weekly that the na dministration fears such a result harrey says is significantly reflected m the eleventh-hour ap b of george w wickersham mr ttorney general ts apparent even before i left new ro weeks ago said the editor at c washington to-day that hearst n m control of the situation and read ju the â– press dispatches to ngihens me m the belief that the lent candidate will beat out both of tammany and bannard the an nominee " resumed colonel harrvey with a if hearst ever is elected mayor of rk that town will be turned upside or he will conduct a housecleaning m't stop until new york is thor cleansed and fumigated is wickersham's speech wickersham's frantic appeal and attack m new york yesterday harvey continued this attack ensibly directed against tammany en the truth is told i believe it jsas inspired by the fear that hearst is the man whom bannard dreads most and that the administration upon thc earnest solicitation of bannard's supporters adopt ed the desperate means of stemming the tide of republican votes setting towaid hearst by flaying both of bannard's oppo nents through wickersham wickersham took particular pains to in form his audience that he was not the mouthpiece of the administration but was speaking as a private citizen who had the best interests of new york at heart no body before ever heard of wickersham com ing to thc front and speaking as a private citizen thinks Taft has blundered colonel harvey thinks president Taft tdundered seriously or rather was led to do so by knox m his recall of charles e crane as minister to china he said there is a great deal back of the crane incident that has not yet come out it will m time however and when it does the administration will not be placed m what you mi lit call an enviable position s.i far as i can discover crane betrayed no secret of state when he gave out that interview to a Chicago paper for what he was credited with saying was a matter of common knowledge 1 think 1 can c the lino italian hand of knox behind the trouble why when crave repeatedly presented himself at the seen tarj of state's office for the par ol receiving information to guide his â€¢;â€¢â€¢: â– as minister to china he could never te kno orjliis assistant sees taft-knqx war brewing they purposely absented themselves knowing thai if crane were given enough rope he probably would hang himself ij imagine uicie will be rather an interest 1 im scene between Taft and knox when t president returns to washington 1 confidently expect to see the president his secretary of stale coming to blows before many months i i -. .â€¢! harvey arrived m seattle last uiglit lie is accompanied by clarence vlackey president md c c adams vice president of the postal telegraph | company with headquarters al new york j and 1 (.; blake general superintendent f iiie pacific division of the company tilly guilty of patricide hied o save his wit im defense i of vtniuk fitfiiier st joseph mi.-h oct m fcmil tilly ie young farmer who on june 2 killed ! father as convicted of manslaughter c to-day after a specia ular trial lasting yen days the tilly family formerly sided m Chicago witnesses were brought uu thai city who told ot the boy's peaee le disposition and of his father's qnar isoine nature tilly's defense was th-it shot to save his wife who had been locked down by one blow from his father d was alwtii to receive a second though nvicted tilly's bail was reduced from 000 to s'j.duo to appear iv court xo Chicago women who greet hilitant suffragette ti Chicago women hailis.pankust mrs dexter and mrs mccor mick help welcome mili tant suffragette boston mass oct 30 mrs wirt dexter _._ mrs stanley mccormick of Chicago and other mitltant women suffra gists wore buttons bearing the inscrip tion votes for women and suspended from which were white tiolet and greeu streamers m honor of mrs pankhurst they welcomed the englishwomen to bos ton mrs dexter and mrs mccormick are the most enthusiastic suffragists m all boston society they devote a great deal of time and money to the cause both were mem bers of touring auto parties to further suf frage nnd were prominent m the pankhurst meeting programme they entertained mrs pankhurst and took her about boston mrs dexter declares she favors suffrage because there is no question about it it is the only right logical condition of aftars she is not m favor of militant methods however and does not believe that english methods would be available iif'this country i was iboru and brought up a suffrag ist said mrs dexter my mother be lieved m it and i grew up with the idea that my rights m the world ought to be the equal of any one why shouldn't i want to vote for my taxes we have al ways believed that taxation without repre sentation was tyranny lam taxed just as much as a man is and 1 am not allowed to vote in return there is no question m my mind about the right of suffrage it is no iv merely a question of its expediency woman's suffrage is coming and com ing fast the four states that have it are a pretty good wedge for the rest of us imagine it took just fifty-five years ao pass a law m this stale whereby a woman could have any rights to her children it took just three weeks to pass the same law after the women got the ballot iv colorado it's hardly surpassing that the men of massachusetts should not want their wom en to vote when we do we'll swamp the men but i am quite sure that the results wili he for good wheu the american woman gets the bal lot she is going to be better off m every way if site gets consideration now she is going to get ten times that amount when once she has a vote calls lincoln greatest v ji district attorney thinks emancipator lends all other tlie best way and the most complete and reverent way to speak of abraham lincoln is to let him speak for himself said harry f atwood assistaut united states district attorney at the luncheon of the hawk-eye fellowship dob of chi cago at the orand pacific hotel yesterday his subject was the centennial of abra ham lincoln's birth abraham lincoln he said was the most wonderful man of the last century - flames damage pictures work of art in marshall field's threatened with destruction works of art were threatened with de struction yesterday by fire which started ln marshall field & co.'s retail store building tit wabash avenue and washing ion street the flames which were on the fourth floor were speedily extinguished bosses in plan to sidetrack barnes his petition nominates him as the republican candidate officials say moxley is i i both cannot be placed on the ballot under the same designation a demo-republican plot to oust carl l barnes from the official ballot m the sixth congressional district was formed last night following a decision h.v a board com posed of county judge hinaker county clerk haas and state"s attorney wayman permitting william j moxley and frank s ryan to go on the ballot under the party titles republican and democrat respectively the man who engineered a friendly suit which resulted m the decision former jus tice q j chott is responsible for the after math discovery that barnes cannot prop erly lie placed on the ticket because his petition is faulty the petition of barnes signed by 4.000 voters of the sixth congressional district declares him a republican and asks that he be placed on the ballot as such chott reasons that inasmuch as the board which j hÂ«hrd the contest yesterday decided that moxley is the republican nominee barnes has no standing and ennnot be voted for at the special election on november 20 barnes petitions as republican chott and james l monaghnn home k galpin joseph bidwlll and other repub lican leaders of the sixth congressional district were ln conference last night and while the result of the conference would not be giveu out by any of the persons con cerned it wns learned that the former jus tice who is the brains of the movement to make moxley's position firm had been instructed to take legal steps this week to test the standing of the independent who is making a terrific campaign against both the democratic and the republican end of the sulllvau-loriiner alliance iv the sixth | district j following is a c py of tho petition of i barnes for a place on tlie ballot whio'i ! was signed by his followers ami filed with j the county clerk the petition plainly describes him as a republican while chott nnd his colleagues hold that the term in dependent republican should have been used , [ the undersigned qualified voters m their own proper person of the sixth congres sional district cook county 111 m ac cordance with the laws relating thereto make the following nomination to be voted for at the election to be held on the 2l(d day of november 1!i0 viz name of candidate kcpreseatative ia con carl l barnes n - tarty or political princi retfl&enct pies sis oakley hmlawt ! republican ohlcat&dk 111 y office to be filled we certify that we have not subscribed j to any other nomination for this office and ! have not toted at a primary election held to nominate v candidate or candidates for j any office or offices to he voted upon at the election to be held on the date named above barnes will fight dr barnes attended a meeting m da grange last night ignorant of the plot to oust him from the ballot but at the end of tlie meeting he said lie was ready to battle the allied republican and demo cratic bosses on that point as hard as he is battling to upset the combine that is planned to place moxley m the congres sional seat from the sixth district the hearing to determine the standing of the allies of the lorimer and sullivan i machine was held m county judge rina 1 iter's courtroom yesterday afternoon james graham acting for the moxley peo i pie appeared as complainant and chal lenged the right of moxley and ryan to go on he ticket as party nominees chott appeared as counsel for graham homer k galpin chief clerk of the mu 1 nlcipal courts appeared for moxley and boss c hull for ryan graham through 1 | chott argued that inasmuch as no primary j election had been held by either party to nominate a candidate neither moxley nor ryan had a right bit the ballot under the party label vhall aid galpin argued m return that the primary law provided that any party which had polled - per cent cf the vote at the last general election could nominate a candidate m the manner in which thej ! donio-reubllcan allies had been named they further argued that the section of j i the law under which chott argued against ' their clients applied only to general nnd ! not to special elections county judge rimtker clerk haas and i state's attorney wayman lost no time m j ruling with galpin and hall and ordered that the names of moxley and ryan appear on the ballot under the party labels chott discovers barnes caption tlie discovery that barnes staudiu could be attacked was made by chott an hour after the board made its ruling m glancing over the petitions chott saw the word republican on barnes paper he immediate sent for monaghas who is managing moxley's campaign galpin and bidwill moxley plainly is the republican nor n inee said chott â€¢ barnes petition which is too late to amend states him to he a republican and asks that he be placed ou the ballot as a republican there can be only one such caption ou th ballot i cannot see how the county clerk can put him on the ballot at all chott would not admit that he had uot been instructed to bring the suit to oust ... hues but lie said significantly i think the county court will have _ chance to make another ruling next week it looks to me as though barnes position ia a perilous one yon cannot go outside the record and there cannot he two ke deneen asked for insurance inquiry cosmopolitan policy holders say transfer was illegal and assets are missing joliet 711 oct 30 another meeting of the joliet committee representing local policy holders in the defunct cosmopolitan life insurance association was held this afternoon and reports were forwarded to covtrnor iieneen and state's attorney j louis liurrel of stephenson county asking that a thorough investigation be made into the alleged transfer it was learned this afternoon that when the original change was contemplated a j meeting of policyholders was called for freeport but notice of the meeting was published only ln the official organ of the knights of the olobe a social organization i nothing was accomplished and at an al llesed adjourned meeting a deal was put through by which the membership of the cosmopolitan company was transferred to the old colony company a majority of the policyholders claim they had no notice of such meeting and did not understand that an adjourned meeting was to be held they say the transfer was made without their sanction or notice lena steps and an investigation will be i started to ascertain where the assets of the ' company have disappeared and 12,000 in particular which tlte old colony claims not to have received but which wns sched uled aa assets by the cosmopolitan officers mortgages listed at 20.000 as assets by the cosmopolitan have been found to be per sonal notes secured by mortgages given by i'lesitlent w w krape of the cosmopol itan the freeport policy-holders are talking of taking criminal steps against president krape and it is expected that the state insurance department and governor de neen will take action on the matter si'kckofield 111 oct 30 ontrary to tlie evident belief of certain policy holders m the defunct cosmopolitan ltf e insur ance association of freeport the transfer of its business to the old colony life in surance association of Chicago was ap proved by fred wi potter state superin tendent of insurance record of which waa entered september 23 1901 notice of an official call sent out by the cosmopolitan to its policyholders of the meeting at which the transfer would be decided upon is on file m the office of superintendent potter who states the wnol transaction was one legally it was sanctioned by the policyholders pre ent it the meeting â– west point cadet's neck broken in football game eugene e byrne left tackle of army team fatally injured m fierce battle with harvard west pttl^t n t oct 30 left tackle eugene^-k byrne of the army football team was fatally injured m this afternoon's game against harvard the young man is a son of john a byrne a former police chief of buffalo n jc and was a fourth year cadet during a ferocious scrimmage about tlie middle of the secand half bryne's neck was broken it was such a uiixup that it was impos sililc to ascertain just who was piled on the unconscious soldier when the strug gling football players were cleared away by the officials the injury was almost identical to that of midshipman wilson fatally hurt at annapolis a couple of weeks ago blames shaw for panic a piatt andrew ot harvard sow of vnitetl states hint^tlie accuser washington oct 30 a oitter criti cism of the course of former secretary of the treasury leslie m shaw and also of the course of former secretary inge made by a piatt andrew of harvard who is just entering the office of director of the mint published some time ago has begun to attract notice in view of professor an drew's high official place it is likely to cause a big stir professor andrew con demns the paternalism which led secre tary shaw repeatedly to aiti the money market he holds uage and shaw partly tesponsible for the 1007 panic he blames mr shaw chiefly saying some of mr shaw's expedients were of doubtful legality he declares that arbitrary and lawless meddling sometimes involving favoritism on the part of tlte treasury fanned the flames of extravagant speculation to open new mail tubes linn 50 feet tnder ground from postoffice to station the new pneumatic tubes between the federal building and the Chicago & north western railroad station wlll be opened at 5 o'clock monday morning the tubes will carry mail between the main postoffice and the kinzie street branch under tho river at wells street iv a specially con structed tunnel they replace the old tubes which formerly ran under the river through the lasalle street tunnel they were discontinued two years ago and the tunnel wns blown up by the war depart ment the new tubes are fifty feet un derground and are m a tunnel five feet m little girl killed in halloween garb dressed m mother's clothes she runs m front of speeding car little helen haims wns just old enough yesterday to enjoy her flrst halloween pranks the children m the neighborhood of lowe avenue and thirtieth street m which she lived had made big preparations for a good time last evening little helen dressed herself m a long skirt belonging to her mother she was nil ready then for halloween she ran out into the street to meet her little com panions she did not see an approaching thirty first street car the child darted in front of the car nnd before the motorman could stop it the car had crushed he little girl's body she had been instantly killed i the body wa s extricated from benea li the wheels doctors were callad but it was too late and the little girl's body was carried to her home i'o4s lowe avenue she was six years old two other children had miraculous es capes from death last evening when they were struck by a city-bound Illinois cen tral train opposite the south shore coun try club they were catherine and anna van ltergen daughters of a market gar dener they did not see the approaching train and attempted to cross in front of it how they escaped ls unknown anna twelve years oia was found to have her skull fractured and one toe cut off cath erine nine years old escaped with a few minor bruises the children were taken to st luke's hospital their home ls at 7035 palmer avenue the accident created great excite ment in the fashionable south shore coun try club moody to go to hospital supreme court justice neighbors say will sever serve agrain boston mass oct 30,-associate jus tice wililam h moody of the united states supreme court is coming to boston to-mor row to enter the corey hill hospital m brookllne for rest and treatment his physicians would have the word go out but the people of haverhill where the justice lives say that he will never take his seat on the supreme bench again early last summer justice moody came from wash ington to his home m haverhill where he has been confined ever since much of the time being spent m bed the justice was so ill and his condition regarded so serious by president Taft last summer that the chief executive and mrs Taft went to haverhill one dq^^^eji ulm governor slaud waterway and call on Taft for action by w h culver lukewarm attitude of presi dent and speaker are op posed by quorum of states executives at new orleans deneen chosen president of conference his idea of work by legislatures aided by congress wins support city gives visitors warm wel come taft's speech nearer an indorsement of move ment than any on trip new orleaiis 1.a oct 30.-pre,s dent Taft m the language of tlie unwashed and some of the governors of states who are now at the deep waterway convention got his to-day and while be was get ting it he got it good the governors who have been silk-hand ed and quiescent all through the trip while the i'resldent talked sarcastically of the waterway took off their coats and went at the oratory when they got the chance this afternoon they made it clear that they did n ot agree with the president's policy of get ting river traffic flrst and improving the waterways afterwards they at jeÂ»sl vant the waterway dug as soon as it can be dug and tbey said so and incidentally they made remarks about uncle joe cannon as well as the president why if i couldn't dig that warerwa m tive years i would go to india and live with the heathens the rest of a,y f said governor stubbs of kansas real enthusiasm wanled we have heard two kinds of pnnrhn coming down mild pessimism and mild enthusiasm but wh.r ire want is en thusiasm sa governor donaghey of arkansas we must not be downcast jnst by what the president and speaker cannon say for they have to be conservative said governor wilson of kentucky Illinois drew the first honors at the open ing of the convention after those giv^n president Taft governor charles s de neen was unanimously chosen to preside over the conference of governors the big gest feature of the convention aside from the president's speech and m all proba bility will be made the chairman of the permanent organization that ls to ba formed later at washington the conference of the governors waa the most emphatic declaration for a deep waterway that either the convention or the trip down the river has brought forth the executives of twenty-three states went on record for the improvement of rivers and the conservation of water power by the states m general and all were favor able to the real deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf by way of the Chicago sanitary canal and the mississippi river Taft forgets Illinois plans the position taken by the governor was very significant especially because therein they are at variance with the president the most striking thing about the president's speeches along the route of his water trip is that if he has ever heard of the Illinois project tho pro posed canal and the 20,000,00 bonds the people of the state . to cut that canal and the deepening of the Illinois kiver and all that lie en tirely forgot to mention it ever < e iv his speeches in his speeches along the w u alaa to-day the president has dwelt pon the one thing namely the improvement of the mississippi for carrying the i -...-. that can be originated along the river ltse*f between the gulf and st lou a md . fihio he has pointed out i i or thru times the dearth of such trame 1.0 . i . has said that the people who want ihe river improved must first show that they have traffic to warrant the improvement before they can ask congress for the , money to make the improvements but j he has overlooked entirely or refused 10 a consider the traffic that might be ori i nated at Chicago wheu the real deep wj-j terway is cut through Illinois jh deneen idea is supported g the action of the governors was dire'leilh chiefly to the Illinois project the slate-fl ments they made were directly m h with the deneen idea that the au h themselves should develop their own iu:orl national waterway without waiting ol federal aid and using the water power iv-h suiting therefrom to recoup the state for the cost of the work and when the gov ernor of Illinois tries to put his waterway legislation through the coming special ses sion of thc legislature he will follow t plaj that uas the approval of a majori y of the governors of the natiou w r stubbs the red headed flre-eating governor of kansas voiced what most of . them thought and meant in a shirt-sleeve am so^'.-h which he made following the au^h j^b of thc president liere though tha w m 5 this edition consists of ffl mm ! â€” maws 7 editoriax f^u w 2 ~ kewb - tictiow fp^lf t'\m markets music & j Â£ v*w 3 â€” spobts - b drama y j \ \ * â€” poreiqk society t 3 vi s â€” autos 9 â€” magazihe l_t jfrto 6 â€” reax estate 10 â€” comic xl ct__.s-__?__\j leads the world === the ===== Chicago examiner . . . gains 601.03 columns m october the Chicago examiner makes this unprece dented gain m display advertising during the past thirty-one days this follows up the journalistic record of 2935.86 columns 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Chicago examiner vol x no 18 a m sunday c Chicago october 31 1909 sunday , pkice five cents hearst will be next mayor of new york says col harvey i magazine editor pre ts defeat of gaynor and nnard by the candidate the civic alliance i what a housecleaning ere'll be he says vhen hearst takes of e declares administra n alarmed wickersham's speech attempt to stem re blican defection blames iox for the recall of c crane h.e wash oct 30 the election am randolph hearst as mayor of rk is predicted by george harvey f harper's weekly that the na dministration fears such a result harrey says is significantly reflected m the eleventh-hour ap b of george w wickersham mr ttorney general ts apparent even before i left new ro weeks ago said the editor at c washington to-day that hearst n m control of the situation and read ju the â– press dispatches to ngihens me m the belief that the lent candidate will beat out both of tammany and bannard the an nominee " resumed colonel harrvey with a if hearst ever is elected mayor of rk that town will be turned upside or he will conduct a housecleaning m't stop until new york is thor cleansed and fumigated is wickersham's speech wickersham's frantic appeal and attack m new york yesterday harvey continued this attack ensibly directed against tammany en the truth is told i believe it jsas inspired by the fear that hearst is the man whom bannard dreads most and that the administration upon thc earnest solicitation of bannard's supporters adopt ed the desperate means of stemming the tide of republican votes setting towaid hearst by flaying both of bannard's oppo nents through wickersham wickersham took particular pains to in form his audience that he was not the mouthpiece of the administration but was speaking as a private citizen who had the best interests of new york at heart no body before ever heard of wickersham com ing to thc front and speaking as a private citizen thinks Taft has blundered colonel harvey thinks president Taft tdundered seriously or rather was led to do so by knox m his recall of charles e crane as minister to china he said there is a great deal back of the crane incident that has not yet come out it will m time however and when it does the administration will not be placed m what you mi lit call an enviable position s.i far as i can discover crane betrayed no secret of state when he gave out that interview to a Chicago paper for what he was credited with saying was a matter of common knowledge 1 think 1 can c the lino italian hand of knox behind the trouble why when crave repeatedly presented himself at the seen tarj of state's office for the par ol receiving information to guide his â€¢;â€¢â€¢: â– as minister to china he could never te kno orjliis assistant sees taft-knqx war brewing they purposely absented themselves knowing thai if crane were given enough rope he probably would hang himself ij imagine uicie will be rather an interest 1 im scene between Taft and knox when t president returns to washington 1 confidently expect to see the president his secretary of stale coming to blows before many months i i -. .â€¢! harvey arrived m seattle last uiglit lie is accompanied by clarence vlackey president md c c adams vice president of the postal telegraph | company with headquarters al new york j and 1 (.; blake general superintendent f iiie pacific division of the company tilly guilty of patricide hied o save his wit im defense i of vtniuk fitfiiier st joseph mi.-h oct m fcmil tilly ie young farmer who on june 2 killed ! father as convicted of manslaughter c to-day after a specia ular trial lasting yen days the tilly family formerly sided m Chicago witnesses were brought uu thai city who told ot the boy's peaee le disposition and of his father's qnar isoine nature tilly's defense was th-it shot to save his wife who had been locked down by one blow from his father d was alwtii to receive a second though nvicted tilly's bail was reduced from 000 to s'j.duo to appear iv court xo Chicago women who greet hilitant suffragette ti Chicago women hailis.pankust mrs dexter and mrs mccor mick help welcome mili tant suffragette boston mass oct 30 mrs wirt dexter _._ mrs stanley mccormick of Chicago and other mitltant women suffra gists wore buttons bearing the inscrip tion votes for women and suspended from which were white tiolet and greeu streamers m honor of mrs pankhurst they welcomed the englishwomen to bos ton mrs dexter and mrs mccormick are the most enthusiastic suffragists m all boston society they devote a great deal of time and money to the cause both were mem bers of touring auto parties to further suf frage nnd were prominent m the pankhurst meeting programme they entertained mrs pankhurst and took her about boston mrs dexter declares she favors suffrage because there is no question about it it is the only right logical condition of aftars she is not m favor of militant methods however and does not believe that english methods would be available iif'this country i was iboru and brought up a suffrag ist said mrs dexter my mother be lieved m it and i grew up with the idea that my rights m the world ought to be the equal of any one why shouldn't i want to vote for my taxes we have al ways believed that taxation without repre sentation was tyranny lam taxed just as much as a man is and 1 am not allowed to vote in return there is no question m my mind about the right of suffrage it is no iv merely a question of its expediency woman's suffrage is coming and com ing fast the four states that have it are a pretty good wedge for the rest of us imagine it took just fifty-five years ao pass a law m this stale whereby a woman could have any rights to her children it took just three weeks to pass the same law after the women got the ballot iv colorado it's hardly surpassing that the men of massachusetts should not want their wom en to vote when we do we'll swamp the men but i am quite sure that the results wili he for good wheu the american woman gets the bal lot she is going to be better off m every way if site gets consideration now she is going to get ten times that amount when once she has a vote calls lincoln greatest v ji district attorney thinks emancipator lends all other tlie best way and the most complete and reverent way to speak of abraham lincoln is to let him speak for himself said harry f atwood assistaut united states district attorney at the luncheon of the hawk-eye fellowship dob of chi cago at the orand pacific hotel yesterday his subject was the centennial of abra ham lincoln's birth abraham lincoln he said was the most wonderful man of the last century - flames damage pictures work of art in marshall field's threatened with destruction works of art were threatened with de struction yesterday by fire which started ln marshall field & co.'s retail store building tit wabash avenue and washing ion street the flames which were on the fourth floor were speedily extinguished bosses in plan to sidetrack barnes his petition nominates him as the republican candidate officials say moxley is i i both cannot be placed on the ballot under the same designation a demo-republican plot to oust carl l barnes from the official ballot m the sixth congressional district was formed last night following a decision h.v a board com posed of county judge hinaker county clerk haas and state"s attorney wayman permitting william j moxley and frank s ryan to go on the ballot under the party titles republican and democrat respectively the man who engineered a friendly suit which resulted m the decision former jus tice q j chott is responsible for the after math discovery that barnes cannot prop erly lie placed on the ticket because his petition is faulty the petition of barnes signed by 4.000 voters of the sixth congressional district declares him a republican and asks that he be placed on the ballot as such chott reasons that inasmuch as the board which j hÂ«hrd the contest yesterday decided that moxley is the republican nominee barnes has no standing and ennnot be voted for at the special election on november 20 barnes petitions as republican chott and james l monaghnn home k galpin joseph bidwlll and other repub lican leaders of the sixth congressional district were ln conference last night and while the result of the conference would not be giveu out by any of the persons con cerned it wns learned that the former jus tice who is the brains of the movement to make moxley's position firm had been instructed to take legal steps this week to test the standing of the independent who is making a terrific campaign against both the democratic and the republican end of the sulllvau-loriiner alliance iv the sixth | district j following is a c py of tho petition of i barnes for a place on tlie ballot whio'i ! was signed by his followers ami filed with j the county clerk the petition plainly describes him as a republican while chott nnd his colleagues hold that the term in dependent republican should have been used , [ the undersigned qualified voters m their own proper person of the sixth congres sional district cook county 111 m ac cordance with the laws relating thereto make the following nomination to be voted for at the election to be held on the 2l(d day of november 1!i0 viz name of candidate kcpreseatative ia con carl l barnes n - tarty or political princi retfl&enct pies sis oakley hmlawt ! republican ohlcat&dk 111 y office to be filled we certify that we have not subscribed j to any other nomination for this office and ! have not toted at a primary election held to nominate v candidate or candidates for j any office or offices to he voted upon at the election to be held on the date named above barnes will fight dr barnes attended a meeting m da grange last night ignorant of the plot to oust him from the ballot but at the end of tlie meeting he said lie was ready to battle the allied republican and demo cratic bosses on that point as hard as he is battling to upset the combine that is planned to place moxley m the congres sional seat from the sixth district the hearing to determine the standing of the allies of the lorimer and sullivan i machine was held m county judge rina 1 iter's courtroom yesterday afternoon james graham acting for the moxley peo i pie appeared as complainant and chal lenged the right of moxley and ryan to go on he ticket as party nominees chott appeared as counsel for graham homer k galpin chief clerk of the mu 1 nlcipal courts appeared for moxley and boss c hull for ryan graham through 1 | chott argued that inasmuch as no primary j election had been held by either party to nominate a candidate neither moxley nor ryan had a right bit the ballot under the party label vhall aid galpin argued m return that the primary law provided that any party which had polled - per cent cf the vote at the last general election could nominate a candidate m the manner in which thej ! donio-reubllcan allies had been named they further argued that the section of j i the law under which chott argued against ' their clients applied only to general nnd ! not to special elections county judge rimtker clerk haas and i state's attorney wayman lost no time m j ruling with galpin and hall and ordered that the names of moxley and ryan appear on the ballot under the party labels chott discovers barnes caption tlie discovery that barnes staudiu could be attacked was made by chott an hour after the board made its ruling m glancing over the petitions chott saw the word republican on barnes paper he immediate sent for monaghas who is managing moxley's campaign galpin and bidwill moxley plainly is the republican nor n inee said chott â€¢ barnes petition which is too late to amend states him to he a republican and asks that he be placed ou the ballot as a republican there can be only one such caption ou th ballot i cannot see how the county clerk can put him on the ballot at all chott would not admit that he had uot been instructed to bring the suit to oust ... hues but lie said significantly i think the county court will have _ chance to make another ruling next week it looks to me as though barnes position ia a perilous one yon cannot go outside the record and there cannot he two ke deneen asked for insurance inquiry cosmopolitan policy holders say transfer was illegal and assets are missing joliet 711 oct 30 another meeting of the joliet committee representing local policy holders in the defunct cosmopolitan life insurance association was held this afternoon and reports were forwarded to covtrnor iieneen and state's attorney j louis liurrel of stephenson county asking that a thorough investigation be made into the alleged transfer it was learned this afternoon that when the original change was contemplated a j meeting of policyholders was called for freeport but notice of the meeting was published only ln the official organ of the knights of the olobe a social organization i nothing was accomplished and at an al llesed adjourned meeting a deal was put through by which the membership of the cosmopolitan company was transferred to the old colony company a majority of the policyholders claim they had no notice of such meeting and did not understand that an adjourned meeting was to be held they say the transfer was made without their sanction or notice lena steps and an investigation will be i started to ascertain where the assets of the ' company have disappeared and 12,000 in particular which tlte old colony claims not to have received but which wns sched uled aa assets by the cosmopolitan officers mortgages listed at 20.000 as assets by the cosmopolitan have been found to be per sonal notes secured by mortgages given by i'lesitlent w w krape of the cosmopol itan the freeport policy-holders are talking of taking criminal steps against president krape and it is expected that the state insurance department and governor de neen will take action on the matter si'kckofield 111 oct 30 ontrary to tlie evident belief of certain policy holders m the defunct cosmopolitan ltf e insur ance association of freeport the transfer of its business to the old colony life in surance association of Chicago was ap proved by fred wi potter state superin tendent of insurance record of which waa entered september 23 1901 notice of an official call sent out by the cosmopolitan to its policyholders of the meeting at which the transfer would be decided upon is on file m the office of superintendent potter who states the wnol transaction was one legally it was sanctioned by the policyholders pre ent it the meeting â– west point cadet's neck broken in football game eugene e byrne left tackle of army team fatally injured m fierce battle with harvard west pttl^t n t oct 30 left tackle eugene^-k byrne of the army football team was fatally injured m this afternoon's game against harvard the young man is a son of john a byrne a former police chief of buffalo n jc and was a fourth year cadet during a ferocious scrimmage about tlie middle of the secand half bryne's neck was broken it was such a uiixup that it was impos sililc to ascertain just who was piled on the unconscious soldier when the strug gling football players were cleared away by the officials the injury was almost identical to that of midshipman wilson fatally hurt at annapolis a couple of weeks ago blames shaw for panic a piatt andrew ot harvard sow of vnitetl states hint^tlie accuser washington oct 30 a oitter criti cism of the course of former secretary of the treasury leslie m shaw and also of the course of former secretary inge made by a piatt andrew of harvard who is just entering the office of director of the mint published some time ago has begun to attract notice in view of professor an drew's high official place it is likely to cause a big stir professor andrew con demns the paternalism which led secre tary shaw repeatedly to aiti the money market he holds uage and shaw partly tesponsible for the 1007 panic he blames mr shaw chiefly saying some of mr shaw's expedients were of doubtful legality he declares that arbitrary and lawless meddling sometimes involving favoritism on the part of tlte treasury fanned the flames of extravagant speculation to open new mail tubes linn 50 feet tnder ground from postoffice to station the new pneumatic tubes between the federal building and the Chicago & north western railroad station wlll be opened at 5 o'clock monday morning the tubes will carry mail between the main postoffice and the kinzie street branch under tho river at wells street iv a specially con structed tunnel they replace the old tubes which formerly ran under the river through the lasalle street tunnel they were discontinued two years ago and the tunnel wns blown up by the war depart ment the new tubes are fifty feet un derground and are m a tunnel five feet m little girl killed in halloween garb dressed m mother's clothes she runs m front of speeding car little helen haims wns just old enough yesterday to enjoy her flrst halloween pranks the children m the neighborhood of lowe avenue and thirtieth street m which she lived had made big preparations for a good time last evening little helen dressed herself m a long skirt belonging to her mother she was nil ready then for halloween she ran out into the street to meet her little com panions she did not see an approaching thirty first street car the child darted in front of the car nnd before the motorman could stop it the car had crushed he little girl's body she had been instantly killed i the body wa s extricated from benea li the wheels doctors were callad but it was too late and the little girl's body was carried to her home i'o4s lowe avenue she was six years old two other children had miraculous es capes from death last evening when they were struck by a city-bound Illinois cen tral train opposite the south shore coun try club they were catherine and anna van ltergen daughters of a market gar dener they did not see the approaching train and attempted to cross in front of it how they escaped ls unknown anna twelve years oia was found to have her skull fractured and one toe cut off cath erine nine years old escaped with a few minor bruises the children were taken to st luke's hospital their home ls at 7035 palmer avenue the accident created great excite ment in the fashionable south shore coun try club moody to go to hospital supreme court justice neighbors say will sever serve agrain boston mass oct 30,-associate jus tice wililam h moody of the united states supreme court is coming to boston to-mor row to enter the corey hill hospital m brookllne for rest and treatment his physicians would have the word go out but the people of haverhill where the justice lives say that he will never take his seat on the supreme bench again early last summer justice moody came from wash ington to his home m haverhill where he has been confined ever since much of the time being spent m bed the justice was so ill and his condition regarded so serious by president Taft last summer that the chief executive and mrs Taft went to haverhill one dq^^^eji ulm governor slaud waterway and call on Taft for action by w h culver lukewarm attitude of presi dent and speaker are op posed by quorum of states executives at new orleans deneen chosen president of conference his idea of work by legislatures aided by congress wins support city gives visitors warm wel come taft's speech nearer an indorsement of move ment than any on trip new orleaiis 1.a oct 30.-pre,s dent Taft m the language of tlie unwashed and some of the governors of states who are now at the deep waterway convention got his to-day and while be was get ting it he got it good the governors who have been silk-hand ed and quiescent all through the trip while the i'resldent talked sarcastically of the waterway took off their coats and went at the oratory when they got the chance this afternoon they made it clear that they did n ot agree with the president's policy of get ting river traffic flrst and improving the waterways afterwards they at jeÂ»sl vant the waterway dug as soon as it can be dug and tbey said so and incidentally they made remarks about uncle joe cannon as well as the president why if i couldn't dig that warerwa m tive years i would go to india and live with the heathens the rest of a,y f said governor stubbs of kansas real enthusiasm wanled we have heard two kinds of pnnrhn coming down mild pessimism and mild enthusiasm but wh.r ire want is en thusiasm sa governor donaghey of arkansas we must not be downcast jnst by what the president and speaker cannon say for they have to be conservative said governor wilson of kentucky Illinois drew the first honors at the open ing of the convention after those giv^n president Taft governor charles s de neen was unanimously chosen to preside over the conference of governors the big gest feature of the convention aside from the president's speech and m all proba bility will be made the chairman of the permanent organization that ls to ba formed later at washington the conference of the governors waa the most emphatic declaration for a deep waterway that either the convention or the trip down the river has brought forth the executives of twenty-three states went on record for the improvement of rivers and the conservation of water power by the states m general and all were favor able to the real deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf by way of the Chicago sanitary canal and the mississippi river Taft forgets Illinois plans the position taken by the governor was very significant especially because therein they are at variance with the president the most striking thing about the president's speeches along the route of his water trip is that if he has ever heard of the Illinois project tho pro posed canal and the 20,000,00 bonds the people of the state . to cut that canal and the deepening of the Illinois kiver and all that lie en tirely forgot to mention it ever < e iv his speeches in his speeches along the w u alaa to-day the president has dwelt pon the one thing namely the improvement of the mississippi for carrying the i -...-. that can be originated along the river ltse*f between the gulf and st lou a md . fihio he has pointed out i i or thru times the dearth of such trame 1.0 . i . has said that the people who want ihe river improved must first show that they have traffic to warrant the improvement before they can ask congress for the , money to make the improvements but j he has overlooked entirely or refused 10 a consider the traffic that might be ori i nated at Chicago wheu the real deep wj-j terway is cut through Illinois jh deneen idea is supported g the action of the governors was dire'leilh chiefly to the Illinois project the slate-fl ments they made were directly m h with the deneen idea that the au h themselves should develop their own iu:orl national waterway without waiting ol federal aid and using the water power iv-h suiting therefrom to recoup the state for the cost of the work and when the gov ernor of Illinois tries to put his waterway legislation through the coming special ses sion of thc legislature he will follow t plaj that uas the approval of a majori y of the governors of the natiou w r stubbs the red headed flre-eating governor of kansas voiced what most of . them thought and meant in a shirt-sleeve am so^'.-h which he made following the au^h j^b of thc president liere though tha w m 5 this edition consists of ffl mm ! â€” maws 7 editoriax f^u w 2 ~ kewb - tictiow fp^lf t'\m markets music & j Â£ v*w 3 â€” spobts - b drama y j \ \ * â€” poreiqk society t 3 vi s â€” autos 9 â€” magazihe l_t jfrto 6 â€” reax estate 10 â€” comic xl ct__.s-__?__\j leads the world === the ===== Chicago examiner . . . gains 601.03 columns m october the Chicago examiner makes this unprece dented gain m display advertising during the past thirty-one days this follows up the journalistic record of 2935.86 columns 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